Sherwyn Arthur Thorson

Sports: Football, Wrestling

Inducted: 2011

Football 1959 – 1961 & Wrestling 1960 – 1962

NCAA Champion at heavyweight, 1962; NCAA runner-up at heavyweight, 1960; Two-time All-American in Wrestling, 1960, 1962; Won Gorriaran Award for most pins in least amount of time at NCAA Championships, 1962; Second Team All-Big Ten in Football, 1961; Third round draft choice of Los Angeles Rams, 1962; Played ten years in Canadian Football League; and inducted into Winnipeg Blue Bombers football Hall of Fame, 2001.